butterflies???

loneroc1January 13, 2014

Hi all,

I'm looking to "raise" butterflies in my new greenhouse. I'm thinking Heliconius (Zebra Longwings, etc) would be the most appropriate. Where do you get ahold of stock? I can't find any on-line sources that will ship. It seems that tropical butterflies are going to escape into the Wisconsin winters and then take over the world.

Maybe there are local lepidopterists that could be of help, but I'm not sure of how I would locate such a person. In Europe it seems that anyone can buy over-the-counter tropical butterflies---no prescription needed.

I read about them in a memoir about a woman who built a greenhouse to help her heal after a serious scare with cancer, called, "Paradise Under Glass: An amateur creates a conservatory garden" by Ruth Kassinger, page167.